Best Alton Brown Quotes
- Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it. Bedtime
- Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be. Add
- Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured. Agricultural
- The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it. Believe
- I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I… Attempting
- That's the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that turkey meat, in its cooked… Cooked
- I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It's a nice… All
- I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue from different angles,… Angle
- I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in fat content in ground meat… Absolute
- Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it… Cash
- Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - you know there is no… Basement
- 'Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path… Cook
- So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after… Culinary
- The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um,… Athens
- You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of… Actual
- I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on… All
- Your patience will be rewarded. Funny
- A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble?… Add
- A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is sort of like a pilot who reads the plane's instruction manual while flying. Cook
- Believe me, a grain is a terrible thing to waste. Believe
- Racism. It's ugly. Even in tubers. Inspirational
- So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash. Amazingly
- My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent… Any
- Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it… Becomes
- I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down… Actually Educational